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The Olympic sailing com­pe­ti­tion began on Monday in Rio de Janeiro’s Gua­n­abara Bay, the site of exten­sive water pol­lu­tion that offi­cials have warned is a health risk for the ath­letes. Here, Geoff Trussell, director of Northeastern’s Marine Sci­ence Center, explains how bad the pol­lu­tion can be for the aquatic ecosystem and what needs to be done to fix the problem.

North­eastern will lead an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary research project to study the inter­con­nec­tivity of rocky inter­tidal com­mu­ni­ties throughout the Gulf of Maine, where the warming rate of its waters is among the fastest in the world.

The uni­ver­sity, in part­ner­ship with U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, held a briefing on Capitol Hill last week where experts dis­cussed crit­ical research and policy issues focused on pro­tecting marine ecosystems.

When ani­mals must bal­ance the fear of being eaten with their own need to feed, their deci­sions affect the whole ecosystem. New research from North­eastern pro­fessor Geoff Trussell, who directs Northeastern’s Marine Sci­ence Center, sug­gests this effect is even more pro­nounced under future cli­mate change scenarios.

Geoff Trussell, Chair of the Depart­ment of Earth and Envi­ron­mental Sci­ences and Director of Northeastern’s Marine Sci­ence Center, pre­sented the Urban Coastal Sus­tain­ability Ini­tia­tive at the Col­lege of Sci­ence Col­lo­quium on Wednesday.

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